First is a desire for smaller, more practical and functional homes, designed not for show but for how people really live and want to live. Where once the value of a home was measured largely in ...

The solution? New homes are being built smaller and much closer together than before. The housing market seems locked in a cycle that is driving the affordability of homeownership down.

With housing prices remaining at or near all-time highs across the country, a trend in case goods has fully crystallized: Smaller scale furniture.

Homes are shrinking in size and soaring in price. The median American home is 128 square feet smaller and $125,000 more expensive than it was five years ago, according to a recent analysis from ...